3725RE: [steiner] Re: Designers behind evolution

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Evert Hoff

May 8, 2006

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Hi Mathew,

The idea that the evolution of humans and animals is shaped
by their will is interesting. I never considered this before - I just assumed
that since we don't even understand how our bodies work and how to change
them that we don't have influence over their evolution. But, we do have the
ability to at least try to will changes to take place. The willing of humans and
animals is maybe how humans and animals communicate to the higher beings or
higher levels of our own beings who are able to change the designs of our
bodies.

I just
hope that the willing of humans doesn't have too much influence over our
evolution, because both males and females are currently willing
changes to their anatomy that will have humans looking very funny if it all
actually started changing - we will start looking like giraffs but with
different parts super-sized.

What's
the difference between desiring something to change and willing the change into
existence? Is it a different part of our souls that do willing instead of
desiring? Do you think the beings who design bodies respond to desires expressed
or only to willing by plants, animals and humans?

There is an intelligent
design in nature, created by supreme beings, that is encoded in the cellular
structure and is pre-determined; and yet, as Starman said, we shouldn't ignore
the fact that life forms have will; and that it is the ability of ours to will
that continually alters our genetic program through the ages.Any theory of evolution that does not at least include `the will' as a
primary factor within evolvement is flawed and short sighted.The Lamarckian revolt against Darwinism was based precisely on this
argument--- not on the principles of "the survival of the fittest" or of
"accidental selection."In Darwinism, it is an accident
that giraffes have long necks.To Lamarck, giraffes evolved
long necks because, on an unconscious level, through desire, they willed their
necks to grow longer; food grew scarce and they needed to reach f or food on
the higher branches of trees in order to survive.Through
successive generations giraffes grew longer and longer necks.The operatives in the American public school system repress the
Lamarckian theory of evolution because it does not conform to the idea that we
are shaped by our environment; in other words, it is non-Marxian.It embraces self determination.

I, for one, embrace the
theory of evolution that involves all three evolutionary
principles:environmentalism (which says life forms are
shaped by their environment), self determination (which says they are shaped
by their will), and intelligent design (which says we were shaped by higher
powers). All three impulses are actively at work in
shaping, not only man, but all life within our universe.Call it the Goethian Theory of Evolution, if you will.